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By Sooyong Park

ISBN-10: 1771641142

ISBN-13: 9781771641142

In The nice Soul of Siberia, well known tiger researcher Sooyong Park tracks 3 generations of Siberian tigers residing in distant southeastern Russia. resembling the best way Timothy Treadwell (the so-called Grizzly guy) immersed himself within the lives of bears, Park units up underground bunkers to monitor the tigers, residing thrillingly with reference to those appealing yet harmful apex predators. even as, he attracts from 20 years of expertise and examine to target the Siberian tigers’ wasting conflict opposed to poaching and diminishing habitat. Over the 2 years of his harrowing stakeout, Park’s poignant and poetic observations of the tigers draw a fiercely compassionate portrait of those elusive, endangered creatures.

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Many species of birds that occur in open woodlands also occur in either more arid environments or wetter environments but rarely both. Species with a preference for open woodland habitat include Bluebonnet, Mallee Ringneck, Mulga Parrot, Speckled Warbler, Painted Honeyeater, Rufous Whistler, Hooded Robin and Jacky Winter. Well-known birding locations with examples of this habitat include Bowra Station (sw. QLD), Weddin Mtns NP (NSW), Binya SF (NSW), and Terrick Terrick NP (VIC). coAStAl And AlPine heAthlAndS Coastal heathland, Fitzgerald River NP, WA Heathlands are widespread throughout Australia, tending to occur on nutrient-poor soils that are either very shallow or heavily leached, and are often clay-deficient and sand-dominated.

It is restricted to large bodies of water. 1 br. br. 1 nbr. 1 br. 2 nbr. 5–39in A huge pied goose with some odd physical features, such as the hooked bill and a strange, helmet-like knob on its crown, which leads to its classification within its own, one-species family, Anseranatidae. 5m (5ft), especially conspicuous in the tropical north of Australia, where it often congregates in truly massive numbers, sometimes flocking in groups of thousands. Although currently still most abundant in the tropical north (n.

Good sites are Fogg Dam (NT) and the Yellow Water, accessible by river cruise, in Kakadu NP (NT). The species is nomadic and less reliably seen in QLD. 1 2 AUSTRALIAN SHELDUCK Tadorna tadornoides 56–71cm/22–28in This plump duck is blackish-bodied, with a bright buff area on the lower neck in the male, and bright, rich chestnut on the lower neck and chest in the female. Both sexes have a dark blackish hood; however, the male has an all-dark head with a subtle green sheen and no pale markings around the eye, whereas the female has a variable amount of white around the eye.

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